It is a 1660 Pelican and I got it for about $150.00 from a site linked through Google shopping.

In that I live in Manhattan now. I keep my telescopes in a self storage facility and am streamlining everything for easy transport. All together and in cases.

A co-worker sold me his Pelican 1550 with padded inserts for $50.00 and I am going to use that for weights, tripod spreader, batteries, hold an old laptop, tool kit etc.

I just can't be spread out all the time running back into the house for this or that.

One thing, I cannot close the lid with the ADM saddle nuts on. The lid presses too much. So I have them stored to the side. The first thing I will do when I open the case will be to put them on before removing the mount.

I used a plano case for a while, and that was cool. But since I use my CG5 with a C8, I came up with a better and even cheaper idea. Trotted down to the dadgum Wally World. Picked up a Tupperware style box deep enough to hold the C8 OTA and the CG5 head. Also grabbed a couple of pieces of foam from their craft department. Layer of foam in the bottom of the box, C8 on top of that, layer of foam on the OTA, CG5 head on that, top snaps on. I've been using this for at least five years, and it's done a good job of protecting OTA and mount, saves space in the truck, and was, best of all C-H-E-A-P..about ten George Washingtons...

Pelican cases are nice, but they are pretty pricy. Storage bins, a thrift shop suitcase, etc.. are some options. My CG5, shaft, C/W and tripod are stored and transported in a musician's padded speaker stand case. I don't recall exactly but it was pretty cheap, under $40.

I get your point about the cost of the Pelican. But the case can be used for my next mount by changing out the pluck foam. It fits the criteria I have as an urban dark site commuting apartment dwelling Manhattanite astronomer.

We all have our own demands and I have been illustrating how the Pelican met mine with it's suitcase grab by the handle design.